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...with wide-ranging interests to protect, have no desire to see local violence get out of hand. But mob bosses may not be able to control their subordinates the way they once did. "If the lower-level yakuza aren't getting any money or any work, they won't listen as well to their bosses," says Benjamin Fulford, a Tokyo-based journalist who writes on the gangs. More than half of yakuza are now classified by police as "associates" rather than fully fledged members; in 1991, only 1 out of 3 yakuza were associates...
...character has to be ridiculous and yet real and frightening. She has to be silly and yet not cartoony. It's difficult to gauge." The performance and the couture established an ostensibly soft side to Dolores. "She wears cardigans and pinks. She threatens, but if you don't listen to the words it's just a pleasant sound. She's gentle and pleasing. If she seemed hard, there would be no surprises...
...stalls selling bootleg DVDs and used electronics, pirated porn and secondhand bridal gowns. Exotic fare abounds, but I opt for a simple treat from childhood: a bananacue, or banana speared with a skewer, caramelized in deep-fried sugar. As I savor the sweet, sticky snack, I listen to a sermon blasted from a loudspeaker by a church decorated like a pastel Easter egg; in front of me is a row of old women selling religious figurines along with herbal potions that claim to do everything from curing coughs to terminating unwanted pregnancy. Afterwards I walk to Chinatown, where merchants hawk...
...listen to everybody. Give everybody a listen...
...fondness for a band that talked about suicide in a non-detached ironic way. (Please don’t step out from that ledge, my friend! Please!) Whatever. Third Eye Blind remains perhaps the only band I know of that somehow willingly tricked parents into letting their children listen to songs encouraging cocaine and crystal meth use. What could they do? “Two lines of coke I cut with Drano/And her nose starts to bleed/A most beautiful ruby red” is a great lyric. So real college be damned. I am ecstatic that the CEB finally embraced...